The system isn’t broken—it’s rigged. If you break the rules, you pay a fine. If you follow them and succeed, you pay a tax. The state profits from your mistakes, then punishes your victories.
This is more than irony—it’s institutionalized extraction. Today’s tax structure targets performance. The more productive, innovative, or successful someone becomes, the more they’re fined for it under a friendlier name. The state doesn’t incentivize greatness. It invoices it.
Recognizing this inversion isn’t cynicism. It’s clarity. And that clarity is the first weapon in dismantling systems that punish prosperity.